sophisticate

English Thesaurus

1. a worldly-wise person (noun.person)

hypernym	:	adult, grownup,
definition	:	a fully developed person from maturity onward (noun.person)

hyponym	:	cosmopolitan, cosmopolite,
definition	:	a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries (noun.person)

hyponym	:	slicker,
definition	:	a person with good manners and stylish clothing (noun.person)

2. make more complex or refined (verb.change)

hypernym	:	complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine,
definition	:	make more complex, intricate, or richer (verb.change)

3. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive (verb.change)

hypernym	:	adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch,
definition	:	corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones (verb.change)

4. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive (verb.communication)

hypernym	:	denote, refer,
definition	:	have as a meaning (verb.communication)

5. make less natural or innocent (verb.social)

hypernym	:	civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train,
definition	:	teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment (verb.social)

6. a worldly-wise person (noun.person)

derivation	:	sophisticate,
definition	:	make less natural or innocent (verb.social)

7. make more complex or refined (verb.change)

derivation	:	sophistication,
definition	:	being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject (noun.cognition)

8. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive (verb.communication)

derivation	:	distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting,
definition	:	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean (noun.act)

derivation	:	sophistication,
definition	:	falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies (noun.act)

derivation	:	sophism, sophistication, sophistry,
definition	:	a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	construction, twist,
definition	:	an interpretation of a text or action (noun.communication)

9. make less natural or innocent (verb.social)

derivation	:	mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness,
definition	:	the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	man of the world, sophisticate,
definition	:	a worldly-wise person (noun.person)

10. a worldly-wise person (noun.person)

derivation	:	sophisticate,
definition	:	make less natural or innocent (verb.social)

11. make more complex or refined (verb.change)

derivation	:	sophistication,
definition	:	being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject (noun.cognition)

12. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive (verb.communication)

derivation	:	distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting,
definition	:	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean (noun.act)

derivation	:	sophistication,
definition	:	falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies (noun.act)

derivation	:	sophism, sophistication, sophistry,
definition	:	a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	construction, twist,
definition	:	an interpretation of a text or action (noun.communication)

13. make less natural or innocent (verb.social)

derivation	:	mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness,
definition	:	the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment (noun.attribute)

derivation	:	man of the world, sophisticate,
definition	:	a worldly-wise person (noun.person)